Summer 2015
Features
Academic Awards and Prizes
Dean James J. Valentini and Dean of Academic Affairs Kathryn Yatrakis were on hand to congratulate the students at the 2015 Academic Awards and Prizes Ceremony, held on May 19 at Faculty House. View photos of the ceremony as well as of the Phi Beta Kappa induction ceremony here.
Special Achievements
Presented by Dean of Academic Affairs Kathryn Yatrakis
Harry J. Carman Fellowship
Grace Catherine Greiner ’15
Class of 1939 Summer Research Fellowship
Robert Jack Gross ’16
Junghoon Kim ’16
Jee Min Lee ’16
Daniel Multer ’16
Vincent Peng ’16
Christa Shen ’16
Tara Mohtadi ’17
Ariana Ray ’17
Jarvis and Constance Doctorow Fellowship
Alyssa Menz ’15
Henry Evans Prize
Khamal Clayton ’15
Solomon and Seymour Fisher Civil Liberties Fellowship
Erika Holmberg ’16
Mayia Kapelnikova ’17
Albert Asher Green Memorial Prize
Daniel Listwa ’15
Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship
Benjamin Gittelson ’15
Jack Klempay ’15
Richard Lewis Kohn Travelling Fellowship
Kevin Choi ’17
David B. Truman Alumni Award
Rajan Gupta ’15
Salutatorian
Stephanie Gergoudis ’15
Valedictorian
Robert Lin ’15
Prizes in the Core Curriculum
Presented by Professor Julie Crawford, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Joshua A. Feigenbaum Prize in Literature Humanities
Maria Mavrommatis ’17
Wallace A. Gray Prize in Literature Humanities
Emma Stodder ’15
Dean Hawkes Memorial Prize in the Humanities
Elena Goldstein ’16
Jonathan Throne Kopit Prize in Logic and Rhetoric
Rebecca Arteaga ’18
James P. Shenton Prize in Contemporary Civilization
Lu Zhou ’16
Prizes in the Creative and Performing Arts
Presented by Professor Julie Crawford, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Academy of American Poets Poetry Prize
Ethan Plaue ’15
Seymour Brick Memorial Prize
Ethan Plaue ’15
Karen Osney Brownstein Writing Prize
Rosa Inocencio Smith ’15
George William Curtis Prize in Oration
Informative: Sebastian Startz ’18
Persuasive: Jonathan Max Etra ’15
Persuasive: Rachel Sommers ’18
Arthur E. Ford Poetry Prize
Jenny Xu ’15
Philolexian Prize Fund
Serena Solin ’16
Austin E. Quigley Prize
Hari Neff ’15
Richard and Brooke Kamin Rapaport Summer Music Performance Fellowship
Fernanda Douglas ’16
Martin Jaffe ’16
Eleanor Kirk ’16
Javier Llaca ’16
Hannah Murphy ’16
Paul Bloom ’17
Mari Funabashi ’17
Jacob Gelber ’17
Yong Murray ’17
Anne Pace ’17
Emily Shyr ’17
Zara Ali ’18
Bronwen Chan ’18
Timothy Diovanni ’18
Alec Hon ’18
Joseph Morag ’18
Louis Sudler Prize in the Arts
Meaghan Elyse Lueck ’15
Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer Prize
Kailee Pedersen ’17
Prizes in the Humanities
Presented by Professor Jenny Davidson, Department of English and Comparative Literature
Senior thesis Prize in Art History and Archaeology
Martha Scott Burton ’15
Charles Paterno Barratt-Brown Memorial Prize
Eric Wohlstadter ’15
Bunner Prize
Jackson Arn ’15
Douglas Gardner Caverly Prize
Verity Walsh ’15
James Gutmann Prize in Philosophy
Daniel Listwa ’15
John Vincent Hickey Prize
William Noah ’15
Adam Leroy Jones Prize in Logic
Diana Flanagan ’15
Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize
Alyssa Cannizzaro ’15
Ernest Stadler Prize for Excellence in the Study of Classical Antiquity
Tyler Rhode ’15
Deutscher Verein Prize in German
Maya Rosmarin ’15
Susan Huntington Vernon Prize
Camille Allamel ’15
Richmond B. Williams Travelling Fellowship
Anya Josephs ’16
Emma Miller ’16
Dennis Zhou ’16
Prizes in Science and Mathematics
Presented by Professor Brent Stockwell, Department of Biological Sciences
Richard Bersohn Prize
Bert Vancura ’15
Computer Science Department Award
Robert Lou ’15
Theodore Marin ’15
Herbert Deresiewicz Summer Research Fellowship
Helen Yang ’17
Thomas J. Katz Prize
Leila Musavi ’15
Alfred Moritz Michaelis Prize
Robert Lin ’15
Professor Van Amringe Mathematical Prize
First-Year: Nguyen Dung ’18
Sophomore: Hardik Shah ’17
Junior: Samuel Nicoll ’16
Bridges and Sturtevant Prize in Biological Sciences
Kun Leng ’15
John Dash Van Buren Jr. Prize in Mathematics
Zoe Woodbury High BC’15
Yifei Zhao ’15
Prizes in the Social Sciences
Presented by Professor Thomas DiPrete, Department of Sociology
Charles A. Beard Prize in History
Anika Havaldar ’15
Charles A. Beard Prize in Political Science
Long Viet Tran ’15
Carl B. Boyer Memorial Prize
Rachel Belfer Bc’15
Chanler Historical Prize
Christopher Meyer ’15
Taraknath Das Foundation Award
Tanvi Bikhchandani ’15
Albert Marion Elsberg Prize
Jacob Hamburger ’15
Myra Kraft Prize For Exceptional Practical Experience in Human Rights Advocacy
Anna Jessurun ’17
Myra Kraft Prize For Superior Academic Achievement in the Study of Human Rights
Brooke Burrows ’15
Garrett Mattingly Prize
Isabel Genecin ’15
Sanford S. Parker Prize
Rishab Guha ’15
Sanford S. Parker Summer Research Prize
Sama Asali ’16
Chate Khemakongkanonth ’16
Omeed Maghzian ’16
Eitan Neugut ’16
Hainian Shi ’16
Edwin Robbins Academic Research and Public Service Fellowship
Devin Bergstein ’16
Nicholas Lyon ’16
Ian Trueger ’16
Jonah Weinstein ’16
Romine Prize
Seminar Paper: Ricardo Rodriguez ’15
Honors thesis: Harrison Wheeler ’15
Phyllis Stevens Sharp Fellowship in American Politics
Daniel Brovman ’16
Jonah Reider ’16
Caroline Phelps Stokes Prize
David Silberthau ’15
Alan J. Willen Memorial Prize
Hahn Chang ’15